CVE-2017-16932
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
Nokogiri gem, via libxml, is affected by DoS vulnerabilities
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.9.10+dfsg-2 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.9.10+dfsg-2 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.9.10+dfsg-2 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.9.10+dfsg-2 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.9.10+dfsg-2 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| xmlsoft | libxml2 | {"endIncluding":"2.9.4"} | |
References
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1714
- http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
- https://blog.clamav.net/2018/07/clamav-01001-has-been-released.html
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759579
- https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00041.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-16932.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16932
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16932
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2017-16932.yml
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1
CWEs
CWE-835
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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